Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 155, No. 2, 2019

Published: 4/26/2019

Article Details for this issue

A new species of Micropeza Meigen from Morocco and a provisional key to the West Palaearctic species (Diptera: Acalyptrata, Micropezidae)

By: MARTIN J. EBEJER

Page: 71–76

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
A new species of Micropezidae, Micropeza kettaniae, is described from Morocco and the twelve west Palaearctic species of Micropeza Meigen are keyed. This is the first record of the family from Morocco and the second species to be described from North Africa.

Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) in the collections of the Manchester Museum

By: CLAIRE MILES

Page: 77–106

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
There are over 2,400 Sphingidae (hawkmoths) held in the Manchester Museum’s Lepidoptera collections, distributed among separate British and worldwide sections. This summary provides a full species list and brings information about the collections and collectors together in one place to encourage the use of the collections for academic or personal research, or for creative inspiration.

BOOK REVIEW EPONYM DICTIONARY OF ODONATA by Bo Beolens

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 106

Type: Book Review

Biology, ecology, distribution and taxonomy of immature stages of Atherigona (s.s.) hyalinipennis van Emden (Diptera: Muscidae), a pest of the cereal crop tef (Eragrostis tef) and the fodder crop Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana)

By: J.C. DEEMING

Page: 107–112

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The mature larva and puparium of Atherigona hyalinipennis van Emden are described, a eulophid parasite and further distributional data recorded and notes given on biology.

The jumping plant-lice of Madeira Archipelago and Selvagens Islands (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) ‒ new records, updated checklist and notes on some natural enemies

By: ANTÓNIO FRANQUINHO AGUIAR, DÉLIA CRAVO, DALVA LUIZ DE QUEIROZ & DANIEL BURCKHARDT

Page: 113–126

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The fauna of Psylloidea from Madeira Archipelago and Selvagens Islands is updated with the addition of four new records: Acizzia uncatoides, Cacopsylla fulguralis, Ctenarytaina spatulata and Platycorypha nigrivirga. The list of psyllids known from these islands now comprises 21 species. Two species of psyllids are cited for the first time from Selvagens Islands. Natural enemies associated with psyllids are cited as new records for Madeira, namely the anthocorid bug Anthocoris nemoralis and the encyrtid parasitoid wasp Psyllaephagus pilosus.

SHORT NOTE Another couple of flower fly synonyms (Diptera: Syrphidae)

By: F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON

Page: 127

Type: Short Notes

BOOK REVIEW HANDBOOK OF THE BEES OF THE BRITISH ISLES [2 volumes] by G.R. Else & M. Edwards

By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL

Page: 128–130

Type: Book Review

BOOK REVIEW INHERITORS OF THE EARTH by Chris D. Thomas

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 131–132

Type: Book Review

Cotesia acerbiae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae), a gregarious parasitoid of Acerbia alpina (Quensel, 1802) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) in Polar Ural, Russia

By: MARK R. SHAW, VELI VIKBERG & PEKKA MALINEN

Page: 131–137

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Cotesia acerbiae Shaw & Vikberg sp. nov. is described from a single large brood reared from a cocoon of the circumpolar moth Acerbia alpina (Quensel, 1802) collected in Polar Ural (Tjumen oblast). The means to distinguish it from other western Palaearctic Cotesia species are given.

BOOK REVIEW LEAF BEETLES (NATURALISTS’ HANDBOOKS Vol. 34), by Dave Hubble

By: JORDAN RAINEY

Page: 133–134

Type: Book Review

BOOK REVIEW A HISTORY OF PESTICIDES by Graham A. Matthews

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 135–136

Type: Book Review

NOTICE: IRISH BIOGEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY – BULLETINS

Type: Editorial